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Robert David Steele
Hispanic Form with Matronymic: Robert David Steele Vivas
11005 Langton Arms Court, Oakton, VA 22124
Skype: robert.david.steele.vivas
Email: robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com
Cell: 571.455.2883
Security
US Citizen DPOB: 16 July 1952 Oceanside NY
TS/SCI Full-Scope Polygraph 1976-2006
OPM SSBI completed 15 March 2012 pending adjudication
Objective
Find and join an existing organization that would value an individual with an extraordinary diversity of
qualifications including #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, former spy, honorary hacker, founding
senior civilian of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, founding CEO of a global small business, founding
CEO of an analytic non-profit, published author and dedicated teacher specializing in graduate and
continuing education.
Availability
Immediate, as Geographic Bachelor (Spouse at CIA HQS next 4 years).
Languages
Native English, Fluent Spanish, Elementary French.
Accomplishments Over Time
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Leading proponent today for integration of Ephermeralism (substitution of information and
information technology for time, space, capital, and labor), Human Scale, Panarchy, World Brain,
Global Game and the implementation methods of Open Source Everything (OSE) and M4IS2
(Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making.
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Among several proponents for radical reform across the secret intelligence disciplines and especially
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Counterintelligence (CI) (“fifteen slices”).
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Foremost proponent over 20 years for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across 90 governments.
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Pathfinder in nurturing integration of information and sense-making across eight communities
(academic, civil society including labor and religion, government at all levels, media, military, and
non-governmental/non-profit), including development of analytic models to accelerate sharing.
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Senior civilian responsible for creating the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (MCIC), Study Director
for the first global coverage endeavor, Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary
Operations in the Third World, creating a model with 144 factors, each with 3-5 levels of difficulty.
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Employment History
Earth Intelligence Network (501c3 Public Charity)
Chief Executive Officer (2006 –
 Recruited 23 other pioneers to design the digital World Brain & Global Game
 Proponent for information-based governance beyond governments, Multinational, Multiagency,
Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2)
 Created strategic analytic model for global holistic analysis, gaming, & participatory democracy
 Pioneered multinational Information Operations (IO)
 International speaker on peacekeeping intelligence and information peacekeeping
 Trained United Nations “Class Before One” and helped establish hybrid unit
 Provided analytic support to UN Commission in Guatemala (March – July 2010)
 Published two foundation books
 INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (2010)
 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (2008)
 Chile, Denmark, Guatemala, Italy, Spain
Open Source Solutions, Inc. (Virginia C Corporation focused on Global Education)
Chief Executive Officer (1993 – 2010)
 Created modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) discipline across 90+ countries
 Created first handbooks in the discipline for UN, NATO, DoD, Special Forces
 Inspired creation of new units now employing roughly 25,000 specialists
 Created concepts of Smart Nation, Information Arbitrage, Information Peacekeeping
 International speaker on role of information as foundation for development harmonization
 Organized and managed global conferences training 7,500 mid-career officers
 Created 30,000 pages of original content still online, free, and relevant
 Created thousands of relationships across national and organizational boundaries
 Inspired sharing across eight “tribes” of intelligence (academia, civil society, commercial,
government, law enforcement, media, military, non-government/non-profit)
 Our annual information technology review was consistently superior to that of In-Q-Tel
 Published five foundation books
 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time (2006)
 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest (2006)
 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (2003)
 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (2002)
 ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (2000)
 Contracted by the Office of Personnel Management, Western Management Development Center
o From 1997-2002, lectured to senior executive candidates on global reality, intelligence
o In final year served as course director for two offerings of the national security course
 Produced OSINT for the multiple clients with global needs
 Roughly $10 million in revenue with one full-time employee (self)
 From indigenous local knowledge in 29 languages (now 33) to global geospatial and online
 IRS audit of 2007 found “no change” for an extremely complex global small business
 Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg,
Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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United States Marine Corps (1976-1996)
Civil Service (GM-14) (1988-1993)
Officer of Marines (Reserve) (1976-1996)
 As second-ranking civilian (GM-14) for US Marine Corps intelligence, from 1988-1993
 Tried and failed to redirect DoD from worst-case to most-likely scenarios
 Tried and failed to get DoD to focus on open communications with all external parties
 Created Service General Defense Intelligence Program (1985-1988)
 Created Marine Corps Intelligence Center/Command (1988-1992)
o Study Director for first global study using only unclassified information, Planning and
Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World (MCCDC, 1990)
o Created original analytic model with 144 factors, five degrees of difficulty for each factor
 Pioneered the all-source fusion workstation & access to open source information
 Managed Congressional, Departmental, and Inter-Agency relationships
 In Reserve capacity, served as Adjunct Faculty for Intelligence, Marine Corps University
 As infantry, intelligence, security/personnel officer (active 1975-1979, reserve 1979-1996)
 Selected to help write Marine Corps Master Intelligence Plan (MCMIP)
 Promoted to field grade (Major/O-4) over course of 20 years in the Reserve
 Colombia, El Salvador, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Okinawa, Panama, Philippines
Central Intelligence Agency
Operations Officer (1979-1988)
 Top performer (top 10% in class, selected/completed Mid-Career Course 101 (War College))
 Recruited 25 traitors, managed over 100 clandestine assets, spent $100K/month
 Managed one global influence operation and global program to penetrate a denied area
 One of two officers assigned to penetrate terrorist target in Latin America in 1980’s
 Created first Standard Operating Procedures for a (Clandestine) Field Station
 Hand-picked to pioneer advanced information technology inclusive of artificial intelligence (all
aspects inclusive of deep debriefings of specialists to acquire heuristics) for entire agency
 Founding Member (National) Advanced Information Processing & Analysis Steering Group
 Member, (National) Information Handling Committee, (National) Future Intelligence Requirements
and Capabilities Committee, various technical working groups (e.g. imagery, signals)
 Hand-picked for DCI’s Advanced Program & Evaluation Group (APEG) – everything technical
 Resigned to accept Marine Corps invitation to create new intelligence capability
 Subsequently testified against secrecy and against torture to various commissions
 Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela
Education1
Naval War College (1987-1990)
Professional Certificate in Defense Studies, 3.3 out of 4.0, with distinction
Strategy, Defense Acquisition & Economics, Maritime/Joint Operations
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A wide variety of other training experiences add to the totality of the educational experience. These include
Marine Corps University Command & Staff College, the three-course Leadership Series at the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) including Supervisory Counseling; the Mid-Career Course at the CIA including inter-agency
collaboration and information-sharing exercises; and a wide range of one-week and two-week training courses
across a range of information technology and decision-support sources and methods.
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University of Oklahoma (1985-1987)
MPA in Public Administration, 4.0 out of 4.0, Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society
Thesis on strategic and tactical national security information (mis)management
Lehigh University (1974-1976)
MA in International Relations, 3.6 out of 4.0, Research Fellow
Thesis on predicting and remediating revolution across multiple dimensions
 Original analytic model fully operationalized—specific data sources for each factor
 Political-Legal, Socio-Economic, Ideo-Cultural, Techno-Demographic, Natural-Geographic
 Pioneered citation analytics identifying disciplinary & organizational blind spots
Muhlenberg College (1970-1974)
AB in Political Science, 3.8 in major, 2.6 over-all, Research Assistant to Chairman & Dean
Senior Thesis on Multinational Corporations (MNC) and Home / Host Country Issues
 MNC Thesis bibliography published by Council of Planning Librarians (1975)
Singapore American High School (1967-1970)
Diploma Advanced Placement and Honors
Grand Prize Science Fair (Hydroponics), Varsity Sports, Student Government
Teaching & Training Experience
United Nations (2007, 2010)
Course Developer & Lecturer (Open Source Intelligence, Information Operations)
Class Before One Inter-Agency Information-Sharing & Analytics (United Nations, Beirut, 2007)
International Conference on National Security & National Competitiveness (1992-2006)
Lecturer and Conference Organizer, 750 Speakers Recruited, 7500 Mid-Career Officers Trained
Special Operations Command (1997-2006)
Lecturer and Course Organizer (Open Source Intelligence, Information Operations)
Special Operations Open Source Intelligence Handbook (June 2004, draft for SOF completion)
Asymmetric Warfare, Information Warfare, Open Source Intelligence (US Special Operations, 1999)
Western Management & Development Center, Office of Personnel Management (1997-2002)
Lecturer (National Decision-Support/Intelligence), Course Director (National Security)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (2000-2002)
Lecturer (Open Source Intelligence)
NATO Open Source Intelligence Reader (NATO, 2002), Open Source Intelligence Handbook (NATO, 2001)
Defense Intelligence Agency (1992-1997)
Lecturer (International Open Source Intelligence), Senior Intelligence Officer’s Course
Open Source Intelligence Handbook (Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, 1996)
Marine Corps University, U.S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia (1992-1995)
Adjunct Faculty for Intelligence (Multidisciplinary)
Intelligence Reader (2 volumes, Marine Corps University, AY 1992-1993)
Amphibious Warfare School, U.S. Marine Corps (1977-1979)
Distance Learning Mentor for Officers Stationed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
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Awards & Honors
Commissioner’s Decanter
Year in Computers
Gratitude
Unsung Hero
Unsung Hero
Hackers Conference
Hackers on Planet Earth
Appreciation Letter
Future of the Spy
Achievement
Exceptional Achievement
Special Achievement
Pi Alpha Alpha
Meritorious Honor (Group)
Scotland Yard
Publication
Colleagues
Microtimes
Microtimes
Silicon Valley
New York
DoD
Alvin Toffler
DoD
CIA DCI
CIA DDO
Society
State
2002
2000
1996
1996
1994
1994
1994
1993
1993
1991
1987
1987
1987
1982
For advances against global crime & terror
For advancing open source information
For advancing open source intelligence
For pioneering open source intelligence
For pioneering open source intelligence
Elected to honorary membership
First speaker and life-time honorary member
For advances against global narcotics
Created chapter centered on open sources
For creating Marine Corps Intelligence Center
For advances in information technology
For unusual success in Central America
Elected for 4.0 average in MPA at OU
For service under fire in El Salvador
Personal
Marital Status: Married since 15 August 1988 (23 years)
Spouse's Name: Kathy Lynette Steele nee Jones of West Virginia
Spouse’s Employer: Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence
Children: Patrick James (22), Matthew Brian (19), Sean Joseph (16)
Early Life: Colombia, Dutch West Indies, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet-Nam, Global (Esso Child)
Interested: Off-Shore Sailing, Non-Fiction Reading (#1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction), Racquetball
Keywords
Analytics; Big Data; Blogging; Business Strategy; Call Center as Warning / Education Grid; Collection
Management; Computer-Assisted Analytics; Decision-Support (Intelligence); EarthGame; Diversity;
Ethics; Future-Proofing; Geospatial as Root; Ghost-Writing; Human Intelligence (15 Types); Human
Relations (21st Century); Hybrid Governance; Hybrid Intelligence; Integrity in Whole Systems Sense;
Innovation; Intelligence (Decision Support); Leadership Development; M4IS2; Man-Machine Analytics;
Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making
(M4IS2); Open Source Everything (e.g. Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding, Crowd-Seeding, CrowdSourcing, Open Access, OpenBTS, Open Cloud, Open Data, Open Education, Open Geospatial, Open
Government, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Open Journalism, Open Knowledge, Open Media, Open
Science, Open Software, Open Standards, True Cost); Open Source Intelligence (OSINT); Organizational
Development; Organizational Intelligence; Panarchy; Participatory Governance; Public Speaking;
Reconnaissance; Requirements Definition; Research; Resilience; Serious Games; Stabilization &
Reconstruction; Strategic Foresight; Sustainability; Sustainable Design; Teaching; Training; Visualization
of Complex Concepts; Whole of Government; World Brain, World Game
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Publications
Books Written
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust (Berkeley, CA: North
Atlantic/Evolver Editions, 5 June 2012, generally in Top 100 multiple categories since release)
INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (Oakton, VA: Earth Intelligence
Network, 2010)
ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Oakton, VA: Earth Intelligence Network, 2008)
THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest (Oakton, VA: Open Source Solutions
International Press, 2006)
INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time (Oakton, VA: Open Source
Solutions International Press, 2006)
THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (Oakton, VA: Open Source Solutions
International Press, 2002)
ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics
Association Press, 2000; Oakton, VA: Open Source Solutions International Press, 2002)
Books Edited & Published
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Oakton, VA: Earth Intelligence
Network, 2008). Edited by Robert Steele and Mark Tovey, senior editor not listed to honor junior.
PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (Oakton, VA: Open Source Solutions
International Press, 2003) Edited by Ben de Jong, Cees Wiebes, and Robert Steele.
Books in Progress
INTELLIGENCE FOR PEACE: Multinational, Multifunctional Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (Oakton,
VA: Earth Intelligence Network, delayed indefinitely. Edited by Col Jan-Inge Svensson, Land Forces
Sweden (Ret), foremost practitioner-instructor, posted free online in rough form.
Study Guides
Class Before One Inter-Agency Information-Sharing & Analytics (United Nations, Beirut, 2007)
Special Operations Open Source Intelligence Handbook (June 2004, draft for SOF completion)
NATO Open Source Intelligence Reader (NATO, 2002), Open Source Intelligence Handbook (NATO, 2001)
Asymmetric Warfare, Information Warfare, Open Source Intelligence (US Special Operations, 1999)
Open Source Intelligence Handbook (Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, 1996)
Intelligence Reader (2 volumes, Marine Corps University, AY 1992-1993)
Artificial Intelligence: Annotated Bibliography (Central Intelligence Agency, Summer 1986)
Multinational Corporations: Annotated Bibliography (Council of Planning Librarians, 1975)
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Chapters
“Foreword,” in editors to be determined, Public Intelligence for Public Health (NATO, 2013).
“The Craft of Intelligence,” in Robert Dover, Michael Goodman, and Claudia Hillebrand (eds.). Routledge
Companion to Intelligence Studies (Oxford, UK: Routledge, 31 December 2012)
“The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth,” in Uffe Kock Wiil (ed.), CounterTerrorism and Open Source Intelligence (Heidelberg, DE: Springer, 2011)
“Creating a Smart Nation” in Mark Tovey, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at
Peace (Oakton, VA: Earth Intelligence Network, 2008), pp. 107-130
“World Brain as EarthGame(TM)” in Mark Tovey, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World
at Peace (Oakton, VA: Earth Intelligence Network, 2008), pp. 389-398
“Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)” in Loch Johnson (ed.), Strategic Intelligence (Volume 2: Collection,
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2007), pp. 95-122 This is the strategic overview in relation to all
aspects of secret intelligence.
“Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in Loch Johnson (ed.), Handbook of Intelligence Studies (Oxford, UK:
Routledge, 2007), pp. 129-147. This is the operational practice guide.
“Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)” in Loch Johnson and Dr. James Wirtz (eds.), Strategic Intelligence:
Windows into a Secret World, An Anthology (Cary, NC: Roxbury, 2007)
“The Importance of Open Source Intelligence to the Military,” in Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz
(eds.), Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World (Cary, NC: Roxbury, 2004), pp. 112-119.
“Information Peacekeeping & The Future of Intelligence: The United Nations, Smart Mobs, & the Seven
Tribes,” in Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert Steele (eds.), PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE:
Emerging Concepts for the Future (Oakton, VA: Open Source Solutions International Press, 2003),
pp. 201-225
“Peacekeeping Intelligence: Leadership Digest 1.0,” in Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert Steele (eds.),
PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (Oakton, VA: Open Source
Solutions International Press, 2003), pp. 389-435
“Threats Strategy and Force Structure, an Alternative Paradigm for 21st Century Security,” in Steven
Metz (ed.) Revising the Two MTW Force Shaping Paradigm (Strategic Studies Institute, 2001)
"Presidential Leadership and National Security Policymaking", in Douglas T. Stuart (ed.), Organizing for
National Security (Strategic Studies Institute, 2000), pp. 245-282.
“TAKEDOWN: Targets, Tools, and Technocracy,” in Lloyd J. Matthews (ed.), Challenging the United
States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America be Defeated? (Strategic Studies Institute,
1998), pp. 117-141.
“Information Peacekeeping: The Purest Form of War”, in Lloyd J. Matthews (ed.), Challenging the
United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America be Defeated? (Strategic Studies
Institute, 1998), pp. 143-171.
“INFORMATION PEACEKEEPING: The Purest Form of War,” in Douglas Dearth and Alan Campen,
CYBERWAR: Myths, Mysteries, and Realities (Armed Forces and Electronics Association Press, 1998).
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“Creating a Smart Nation: Information Strategy, Virtual Intelligence, and Information Warfare,” in Alan
D. Campen, Douglas H. Dearth, and R. Thomas Goodden (eds.), CYBERWAR: Security, Strategy, and
Conflict in the Information Age (AFCEA, 1996)
“Fiche sur le Renseignement Ouverte,” in l’Admiral Pierre Lacoste, Defense et Renseignement (Paris, FR:
Editions L’Harmattan, 1995). In French, “On Open Source Intelligence.”
Monographs
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (Strategic Studies Institute, May
2010)
Putting the I into DIME: Strategic Communications & Information Operations, Peacekeeping Intelligence
& Information Peacekeeping; Early Warning and Stabilization & Reconstruction Operations,
(Strategic Studies Institute, February 2006)
The New Craft of Intelligence: Achieving Asymmetric Advantage in the face of Nontraditional Threats
(Strategic Studies Institute, February 2002)
War & Peace in the Digital Age: Digital Natives, Serious Games, & the Way of the Wiki Seventh
Generation Information Operations and Irregular Warfare (Waging Peace) (Strategic Studies
Institute, set aside after critical review)
Official Studies Inclusive of Original Analytic Models
Study Director, Special Studies (various global endeavors, several with collection and analysis in up to 33
languages, for the U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Central Command, 1997-2008).
Study Director, Open Source Intelligence, J-2 Plans U.S. Central Command (multiple studies over a three
year period studying key aspects of each of 27 countries in respective languages, from water to
logistics choke points to public perceptions of US public, US government, US military, US as a
national construct; first study on Somali piracy; then global studies of Islamic sermons and Islamic
families (top 20 in each of the Caliphate countries, 2005-2007))
Study Director, Proliferation Studies (seven case studies on hardest proliferation problems for Project
SWEEPSTAKES, an inter-agency all-source endeavor. Using only open sources in all relevant
languages, mapped individuals, components, sites, and transit devices for each of the seven major
proliferation targets, creating huge wall maps, 1998-1999)
Study Director, Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World
(Marine Corps Combat Development Command, March 1990) Created a new analytic model across
military, civilian, and geographic frames, with 144 factors each defined by the war-fighter at 3-5
degrees of difficulty. Using only open sources, created strategic generalizations highly relevant to
force structure and acquisition management.
Articles2
“The Open Source Everything Manifesto,” Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012
“How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny – Last Call for Occupy,” Reality Sandwich, 24
May 2012
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Partial Listing.
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“The Battle for the Soul of the Republic,” Reality Sandwich, 10 April 2012
“National Intelligence and National Defense,” Campaign for Liberty, 17 June 2011
“Fixing the White House and National Intelligence,” International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence (Winter 2010)
“OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam,” Homeland Security Today, 9 February 2010
“Perhaps We Should Have Shouted: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Phi Beta Iota, 3 August 2009
“U.S. Naval Seapower in the 21st Century:24/7 Pile-On, M4IS23 Hub, & Peace From the Sea.” Phi Beta
Iota, July 2009
“Intelligence for the President—AND Everyone Else,” CounterPunch, Weekend Edition, February 27 – 1
March 2009
“The Open Source Program: Missing in Action,” International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence (Fall 2008)
“Rebalancing the Instruments of National Power,” Phi Beta Iota, 9 May 2008
“Foreign Liaison and Intelligence Reform: Still in Denial,” International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence, (Summer 2007)
“Blank Slate: Open Source Intelligence,” Forbes ASAP, 18 April 2006
“Intelligence Affairs: Evolution, Revolution, or Reactionary Collapse?” International Journal of
Intelligence & Counterintelligence (Winter 2005-2006)
“Peacekeeping Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping,” International Journal of Intelligence &
Counterintelligence (Summer 2005)
“Intelligence Reform: More Needs to Be Done” Parameters (Summer 2005)
“Information Peacekeeping and the Future of Intelligence,” International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence (Summer 2004)
“The New Craft of Intelligence: Making the Most of Open Private Sector Knowledge,” TIME Magazine
(Web), 2002
"Crafting Intelligence in the Aftermath of Disaster," International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence (April 2002)
"Possible Presidential Intelligence Initiatives",
Counterintelligence (December 2000)
International
Journal
of
Intelligence
and
"Muddy Waters, Rusting Buckets: A Skeptical Assessment of U.S. Naval Effectiveness in the 21st
Century" (accepted for publication by the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, withdrawn and
published at www.defensedaily.com/reports/gonavy.htm 17 November 1999).
“The Asymmetric Threat: Listening to the Debate,” Joint Forces Quarterly No. 20 (National Defense
University, Autumn/Winter 98-99), pp. 78-84.
"Relevant Information and All-Source Analysis: The Emerging Revolution" in American Intelligence
Journal (Spring 1999)
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Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2)
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"First to Fight but Not Fighting Smart: A Skeptical Assessment of U.S. Marine Corps Effectiveness in the
21st Century", Marine Corps Gazette (May 1999)
“Virtual Intelligence: Conflict Avoidance and Resolution through Information Peacekeeping”, Journal of
Conflict Resolution (Spring 1999), originally developed for the U.S. Institute of Peace (1997).
“Eyes Wide Shut,” WIRED Magazine (August 1997)
INTERVIEW “Intelligence Strategique aux Etats-Unis: Mythe ou Realite?” Revue Francaise de
Geoeconomie (Spring 1997) In French, “Strategic Intelligence in the US: Myth or Reality?”
“Open Sources and Cyberlaw,” Fringeware (#11, April 1997)
“The Military Perspective on Information Warfare: Apocalypse Now,” Enjeux Atlantiques (#14, February
1997)
“Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information,” Government Information
Quarterly (Summer 1996)
“Reinventing Intelligence: The Vision and the Strategy,” International Defense & Technologies
(December 1995), bilingual in French and English.
“Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to National Security,” in Intelligence and
National Security (Special Issue, October 1995)
“Reinventing Intelligence: Holy Grail or Mission Impossible?” International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence (Summer 1994)
“ACCESS: The Theory and Practice of Competitor Intelligence,” Journal of the Association for Global
Strategic Information (July 1994)
“Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit”,
Proceedings, Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994)
“A Critical Evaluation of U.S. National Intelligence Capabilities,” International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence (Summer 1993)
“E3I: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence: An Alternative Paradigm for National Intelligence,”
Whole Earth Review (Fall 1992)
“C4I: The New Linchpin,” Proceedings (U.S. Naval Institute, July 1992)
“Applying the ‘New Paradigm’: How to Avoid Strategic Intelligence Failures in the Future,” American
Intelligence Journal (Autumn 1991)
“Intelligence Support to Expeditionary Planners,” Marine Corps Gazette (September 1991)
“Intelligence in the 1990's: Recasting National Security in a Changing World,” American Intelligence
Journal (Summer/Fall 1990)
Book Reviews4
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive Future)
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative Past)
#1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reading in 98 categories, Over 500 “fans” whose votes are not counted.
Under the older system that did not count negative reviews, over-all #32 among all Amazon reviewers for all
categories of literature. Under the new system, which does count negative reviews (shoot the messenger in effect),
#292 among all reviewers including those that do fiction, movies, software, and household products.
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Op-Eds (Selected)
“National Intelligence and National Defense,” Campaign for Liberty, 17 June 2011
“Cyber-Intelligence: Restore the Republic of “Of, By, and For,” Huffington Post, 4 January 2011
“Infinite Wealth for All,” Huffington Post, 26 December 2010
“Frog 6 Guidance for 2010-2020,” Huffington Post, 21 December 2010
“Diversity of Voices & Values,” Huffington Post, 21 December 2010
“Empire of Lies & Secrecy,” Huffington Post, 11 December 2010
“A World That Works for All,” Huffington Post, 6 December 2010
“REVIEW: Buckminster Fuller’s 1928 Ideas & Integrities,” Huffington Post, 30 November 2010
“Our Choice: Changing the Game,” Huffington Post, 15 November 2010
“On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace,” Huffington Post, 4 November 2010
“8 Populations, 4 Methods,” Huffington Post, 2 November 2010
“12 Core Policy Domains,” Huffington Post, 27 October 2010
“10 High Level Threats to Humanity, Huffington Post, 26 October 2010
“What’s Right with America? Let Me List the Books,” Huffington Post, 21 October 2010
“My Talk with Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence,” Huffington Post, 19 October 2010
“Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace,” Huffington Post, 14 October 2010
Graduate Research Posted Online
National Security C3, I3, H3: Command, Communications, & Computing; Inter-Agency, Inter-Disciplinary,
Inter-Operability; Heuristics of the Community Intelligence Cycle (University of Oklahoma, 1987)
Artificial Intelligence and Complex Public Organizations (University of Oklahoma, 1986)
Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of Revolutionary Potential
(Lehigh University, 1976)
The Origin and Failure of the State (Lehigh University, 1975)
An Outline of the Structure and Strategy of the Foreign Affairs System of the People’s Republic of China
(Lehigh University, 1975)
Perversion or Progression? An Examination of Our Constitution’s Contemporary Validity in Foreign
Affairs (Muhlenberg College, December 1973)
Theological Ethics (Muhlenberg College, Fall 1973)
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Testimony, Invited Lectures & Recurring Instruction5
“Integrity, Reflexivity, & Open Source Everything,” Panel on Complexity and Reflexivity (Washington
Academy of Sciences, 31 March 2012)
“The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Coping with Complexity via Transparency, Truth, & Trust,”
University Seminar on Reflexive Systems (George Washington University, 15 March 2012)
“Competitive Commercial Intelligence and Strategy in International Markets: Context and Challenge,”
Government of Spain, November – December 2011
“Cyber-Command or Information Operations 21st Century (IO 21),” (US Army Annual Information
Operations Conference, Peterson AFB CO, 6 April 2011)
“Hacking Health: Integrative Analytics to Optimize Personal Health, Environmental Health, Natural and
Alternative Cures, and Standard Medical/Pharmaceutical Remediation,” Health 2.0, 24 March 2011
“Building a Global Web: Education, Intelligence, & Research,” Candidacy Briefing for position of Vice
President for Global Strategies (George Mason University, January 2011)
“Impact of Globalization on Intelligence: Context & Challenge,” (Government of Chile, 25 November
2010, Santiago, Chile)
“SPY IMPROV: Questions & Answers with the #1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction (New York City, 17-18
July 2010, eight hours, from 1159 on Saturday 17 July 2010 to 0800 on Sunday 18 July 2010)
“Hacking Humanity,” Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Keytone (New York City 16 July 2010, on hour)
“The Future of OSINT is M4IS2: Online Tutorial, Phi Beta Iota, 25 November 2009
“The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth,” (Denmark 27-28 October 2009)
“Real Time Information: Injecting New Information Into Decision Systems (National Press Club,
Washington, D.C., 23 September 2009)
“Planned Remarks for Robert David STEELE Vivas,” Economics, Intelligence, & Transparency Conference
(New York City, 13 September 2009)
“DoD Open Source Intelligence Leadership Briefing,” to USD(I) and DIA, Phi Beta Iota, 10 September
2009
“DoD Open Source Intelligence Staff Briefing,” to USD(I) and DIA, Phi Beta Iota, 10 September 2009
“Open Everything,” UNICEF (New York City, 15 July 2009)
“The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Faculty of Advanced Engineering,
University of British Columbia, March 2009)
“Secession is Not Sedition: Restoring the Sovereignty of the Public over the Substance of Governance
(Third North American Secession Convention, Manchester, New Hampshire, 15 November 2008)
“Information-Sharing & Analytics Orientation,” (National Defense Intelligence College, Multinational
Intelligence Fellows Program, 11 March 2008)
“United Nations “’Class Before One” Information-Sharing and Analytics Orientation,” (UN Mission Beirut,
Lebanon, August 2007)
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“Bin Laden, U.S. Intelligence, and National Security,” Hackers on Planet Earth (New York, 20 July 2006)
“The Failure of 20th Century Intelligence,” Hackers on Planet Earth (New York City, 21 July 2006)
“Spy Improv: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Reality But Didn’t Know Who to Ask,” (4
hours), Hackers on Planet Earth (New York City, 21 July 2006)
“Model for Making Amazon the World Brain: All Information, All Languages, All the Time,” Amazon
Developers’ Conference Capstone Speaker (Seattle, 6 January 2006)
“Open Source Intelligence: The Way Ahead,” Naval Intelligence Professionals (Suitland, MD, 3 February
2006)
“The Googlization of Intelligence,” Hackers (Silicon Valley, 5 November 2005)
“E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence—Making the Revolution,” U.S. Army Strategy
Conference (Carlisle, PA 22 April 2005)
“Information Peacekeeping: A Nobel Objective,” Third International Conference on Peacekeeping
Intelligence (Stockholm, 4 December 2005)
“The Future of Intelligence: Not Federal, Not Secret, Not Expensive,” Guest Lecture for the Assistant
Secretary for Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, 8 November 2004.
“The New Craft of Intelligence: How State Should Lead,” Distinguished Speaker Presentation to the
Secretary (of State Colin Powell)’s Open Forum (24 March 2004)
“C4I Revolution and National Security,” Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (San
Antonio, 1 September 2003)
“Strategic Threat Assessment: A Regional Approach to Intelligence, Force Structure, & Combined
Operations,” Presentation to the conference of South American military leaders (U.S. Southern
Command, 26 March 2003)
“Information Peacekeeping & the Future of Intelligence,” Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association
Banquet Speaker (Amsterdam, 15 November 2002)
“The New Craft of Intelligence What Should the T Be Doing to the I in IT,” National Security Agency
Industry Conference Keynote (Las Vegas, 6 January 2002)
“One World Ready or Not: From National Capabilities to Global Coverage Through a Virtual Intelligence
Community Coordinated by NATO/PfP,” Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, 2000.
“TOUGH LOVE,” Security Affairs Support Association, Defense Intelligence Agency (16 September 1999)
“The Information Age and Open Source Intelligence: National Security through the Reinvention of
National and Defense Intelligence” (recurring presentation to the National Security Intelligence
Course, Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, 1994-1999)
TESTIMONY: Talking Points on Secrecy and Accountability (Congressional Forum, 9 October 1996)
TESTIMONY: Sources & Methods for Congressional Inquiry (Commission on Secrecy, Summer 1996)
“Waging War and Peace in the 21st Century: Creating the Virtual Intelligence Community,” International
Flag Officer’s Conference, Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale (Paris, 15 December 1995)
TESTIMONY: “Reinventing National Intelligence,” and the “Burundi Benchmark Exercise,” Commission on
the Roles and Capabilities of the US Intelligence Community (5-9 August 1995)
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“National Information Strategy for National Security and National Competitiveness,” Community Open
Source Program Office Government-Industry Conference (16 June 1995)
“Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of Open Source Information and National & Corporate
Security in the Age of Information,” 6th National Threat Symposium on Information Sharing
(McLean, 1 November 1994)
“Creating a Smart Nation: The Way Ahead,” presented abroad to multiple governments in a world tour,
1994
“The Reinvention of Intelligence,” Conference on Defense and Intelligence in the Chamber of the French
Senate, 26 October 1993. Invited at the direction of the Prime Minister acting on the advice of his
intelligence advisor.
TESTIMONY: Comments and Statement for the Record, Presidential Inter-Agency Task Force on National
Security Information (Washington, 9 June 1993)
RECURRING LECTURES: on non-fiction, strategy, leadership, and all aspects of the discipline of
intelligence.
Appearances in Documentaries, YouTube6
Les Hackers, National Geographic Channel (2008)
American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)
Le Monde selon Bush (The World According to Bush) by William Karel, Paris Premiere TV (2004)
Four informally taped presentations on YouTube including
 “Need for Strategic Analytic Model,” Woodrow Wilson Center, 8 April 2011 (2 minutes)
 Impact of Globalization on Intelligence: Context & Challenge (in Spanish, Chile, November 2010)
 Open Everything (Gnomedex, Seattle, 2007)
 Amazon as the Hub of the World Brain (Amazon Developers Conference, Seattle, 2007)
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